Communist Cuba, the darling of progressive champions like Sen. Bernie Sanders, Mayor Karen Bass, and CPUSA leader Gus Hall, is not doing so well. After Venezuela ran out of money and Russia spent all its money buying Iranian drones, the Communist regime ran out of Castros and cash.

The power is down and has been going down on and off for days. And unlike California, there’s not much of an industry or a taxpayer base that the ruling Communist elite can loot for repair money.

The Cuban Communist regime is reliably blaming the American embargo, but when you’re a Communist regime, blaming all your problems on the refusal of the capitalists to sell you stuff ought to be embarrassing.

Taking a lesson from California, the Cuban regime has however demanded more money from the ‘private sector’ and announced plans to build more solar power. The problem with solar power (apart from the fact that it’s an expensive and highly inefficient gimmick mainly good for putting money in the pockets of green investors and Communist China) is that Cuba can’t make its own and is deeply hostile of foreign businesses which means that its solar pipe dreams are as real as Das Kapital’s economics.

Good news though.

As part of the 2015 Paris Agreement, the Cuban government committed to 37% of its power coming from renewable energy by 2030, an ambitious increase from an initial 24% targe

The actual number is 5%. And a bunch of that apparently involves burning cane sugar.

The share of Cuba’s electricity that comes from renewable sources like solar and burning sugar cane waste has increased only slightly, from 3.8% in 2012 to 5% as of 2022, according to research from the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School and EDF

Perhaps some greenie can educate me about the environmental impact of burning cane sugar on the planet.

Meanwhile, there’s no power, there are shortages of running water, and pretty much everything else.

There’s only one answer: California Gov. Newsom must immediately take over Cuba.